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There are currently 156 questions. I began with 122.
I have thought about 132 of the questions since I started on July 8, 2006.
24 questions remained unswered when I stopped in the Summer of 2007

(1) What makes you accept an argument?

(2) What can't I tell you?

(3) How does a dog decide what to do?

(4) What is there to figure out?

(5) What goes against money?

(6) Why put designs on a basket?

(7) What is the ignorance that flees our understanding?

(8) How do you find out if other people are thinking? Do you ask them? What do you ask them?

(9) What sounds are music? Why does music make us dance?

(10) A middle-aged person can no longer display certain emotions: flashing anger - seduction - naiveté - innocence...
What are the emotions appropriate to a middle aged person?

(11) How did so many ancient rulers seem to have artistic taste?

(12) Why do we not suffer more than we do because we are not rich?

(13) Where does love go when love goes?

(14) What is the test for watching a movie correctly?

(15) Is it better to live a calm life of uneventful efficiency? Or be tossed about between lows and highs like a butterfly in a chilly summer wind?

(16) Why am I am so full of shit?

(17) Why do we take sides in history?

(18) How is it that so few people read history, but love to visit historical sites when they go on vacation?

(19) Where do thoughts come from?

(20) Why is fantasy so pleasant?

(21) If I were to photograph someone naked, what poses would I use?

(22) Is good food is just a matter of taste?

(23) Why the fuck should God bless America? Anyone?

(24) Would you rather be rich or intelligent?

(25) Why is nature beautiful? Why is not every parking lot and garbage dump equally beautiful?

(26) Can an education be evaluated?

(27) Can intelligence be taught?

(28) How can a book, arguable a huge waste of time, so seem not to be a waste of time?

(29) What is it to be uneducated?

(30) Does anyone know what the fuck they really want?

(31) How should you dress in heaven?

(32) Why don't we wear two hats at once?

(33) Is it ok to be unhappy and upset about things you cannot change? Like aging and dying and being me?

(34) Is the division between deep and shallow, deep or shallow?

(35) Without using language, how do you display your intelligence?

(36) Why do people have different ideas about the world?

(37) To what extent am I responsible for crimes of my gender?

(38) How come the Europeans in the 17th to the 19th Centuries didn't invent summer wear or casual wear?

(39) If God was in charge of the PA System in the train station, what would he say?

(40) What is the face with which we face the world as we get older?

(41) Why do people in Germany still read, while the people in the US do not read very much? The two cultures have the same temptations: TVs, videos, and video games.

(42) Can you love your kids too much, or too blindly?

(43) How can there be differences among people? Is it different values? stupidity? matters of taste? mistakes? or snap judgments?

(44) If everyone thought I was beautiful, would I be beautiful?

(45) Is it a moral duty to get fucked-up occasionally?

(46) Is spiritual insight most like: riding a bicycle? getting a math problem correct? reading a really good book? getting high or having an orgasm?

(47) What would be an adventure for you?

(48) With the Internet everywhere, why are we not smarter?

(49) What do the other people do, the ones who don't want to pretend they're not like everybody else?

(50) What is the exact opposite of flying the American flag?

(51) Are preachers who threaten us with hell a kind of terrorist?

(52) Whom do I spread my plumage for?

(53) Can we consider all human action as unconscious?

(54) Is the unexamined life not worth living?

(55) Can you really talk to anyone?

(56) Why do we want to live?

(57) What does time not tell us?

(58) What will people think in the coming decades?

(59) Can one be both kind and honest?

(60) Why should we be politically correct?

(61) How can we identify with a person far away in place and time?

(62) Why are there stories about monsters in all civilizations, yet there are no monsters?

(63) Would you rather be a great actor playing a small part, or a mediocre actor playing a big part?

(64) Why doesn't everyone think like me?

(65) How can we overthrow the system?

(66) Why does it not bother anyone else that they do not understand the world?

(67) Can a person who is a believer and one who is not a believer talk about religion, or the nature of the universe?

(68) What do you have to believe to believe that: There is a God?

(69) What do you have to believe to believe that: It is good for the US Government to hold prisoners indefinitely without pressing charges or letting them see any lawyers?

(70) What do you have to believe to believe that: Aliens exist?

(71) What do you have to believe to believe that: Gay marriage is a threat to our society?

(72) What do you have to believe to believe that: You should trust your own snap judgments?

(73) What do you have to believe to believe that: Love is really important?

(74) What do you have to believe to believe that: Love is not really important?

(75) What do you have to believe to believe that: It is all right to pay a CEO over 500 times what you pay your low-end employees.

(76) What do you have to believe to believe that: Disrespecting the Koran is really, really bad?

(77) What do you have to believe to believe that: There is no evolution?

(78) What do you have to believe to believe that: The US is the greatest country on earth?

(79) What do you have to believe to believe that: A statue of a god could guard a harbor?

(80) What do you have to believe to believe that: It is a terrible thing for anyone, anywhere to portray your spiritual being in a cartoon?

(81) What do you have to believe to believe that: Someone is an asshole?

(82) What do you have to believe to believe that: The world owes you a living?

(83) What do you have to believe to believe that: The government should not let anyone starve?

(84) What do you have to believe to believe that: Murder is wrong?

(85) How can we reduced the influence of religion in our public life?

(86) To what extent am I responsible for crimes of my ancestors?

(87) If you understood everything, would your life be better?

(88) Is there something called "growing-up"? What is over with when we grow-up

(89) What is death?

(90) Why don't people think about things more?

(91) Why is religion so persistent?

(92) What would it be like to live in a primitive tribe?

(93) Can we imagine people without language?

(94) What was it be like for the first humans to migrate out of Africa?

(95) What is the wisdom of elders?

(96) Why do people still believe in religion? (It seems so irrational.)

(97) What is the best form of government?

(98) When is it wrong to offend people?

(99) What is an acceptable risk?

(100) Why do people like pets?

(101) What is honor?

(102) For God's sake, how did we get such bad political leadership?

(103) Is human life sacred?

(104) What is the relation between authority and power?

(105) Why do we have human social conventions?

(106) How do human social conventions change?

(107) Why do we have myths and not truths?

(108) What is the importance of culture?

(109) Why is prostitution wrong?

(110) Why is slavery wrong?

(111) Why is racism wrong?

(112) Why do the rich get richer?

(113) Will there ever be a revolution?

(114) Why do we all put up with all this shit?

(115) What is sex?

(116) Why won't someone pick up litter?

(117) What is it to be attractive?

(118) Why are there so many songs of love?

(119) Can you think without studying?

(120) How hard is life?

(121) What does it mean to say that behaviors are "built into our genetic structure?"

(122) What is the monetary value of childhood abuse?

(123) Why do we speak of "the love of knowledge?"
What is lovable about knowledge?

(124) What facts do I need to know about the world in order to understand the world?

(125) What would be the features of a being a more intelligent than human beings?

(126) What is worth dying for?

(127) What is a moral man?

(128) What is true religion?

(129) What is false religion?

(130) Why is false religion so popular?

(131) No really, why are there so many sexual taboos?

(132) How can America become so unamerican?

(133) Am I unique?

(134) What is decided by fisticuffs?

(135) What is the meaning of Jesus?

(136) What is family?

(137) What is it to understand the world?

(138) How malleable is human nature?

(139) What questions can I not pull the answers to out of my ~~ass~~ profundity.

(140) What headlines would you like to see on Google?

(141) Why are recreational drugs illegal?

(142) Am I a Humanist?

(143) What is celebrity?

(144) Why, after thousands of years, have we not figured out a way to avoid war?

(145) What will people think of us in the future?

(146) What is it to enjoy a film?

(147) What is it to enjoy a book?

(148) What is it to enjoy music?

(149) What is it to be hip?

(150) Why are movie stars so beautiful/handsome?

(151) Why do we still have war?

(152) Are there higher pleasures?

(153) Why do we shop?

(154) What is reason?

(155) What is reality?

(156) 10 key aphorisms

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